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...first official president in 1640, Dunster’s reign would last until 1654, during which he managed to operate the un-endowed University with an annual budget of 175 pounds. In 1650 President Dunster secured Harvard’s charter from the General Court of Massachusetts. The sheep-skin document, which outlines the basis of Harvard’s governing body, is used to this...

Author: By Elizabeth M. Doherty, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Turning a New Page | 2/14/2007 | See Source »

...women receive "equal" diplomas, but the official signatures differ. If you're a woman, Radcliffe President Linda S. Wilson signs on the dotted line. If you're a man, it's Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis '68. Harvard University President Neil L. Rudenstine signs everyone's sheep-skin...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Deconstructing Radcliffe: A Tradition of Confusing Questions | 9/14/1998 | See Source »

...large selection of hand-carved woodenware, CUTTING BOARDS of all sizes and shapes, SALAD BOWLS, and thousands of other rustic items. SHEEP-SKIN RUGS from $15 to $150. We stock a full line of Persian hand-embroidered coats (as illustrated) along with hundreds of antique fur coats from $10 up. The coffee...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Christmas Gifts For Each and Everyone | 12/12/1968 | See Source »

...graduating class to inform their parents that they cannot witness the final exercises defeat the very object for which most parents come to Cambridge at the end of the academic year; namely, to see their sons honorably discharged and the diploma received. It is true that the actual sheep-skin may not possess the intrinsic value of past years but the final ceremonies attached to graduation are naturally of the greatest interest to a man's parents. To bar them, as is now necessarily the case at Sanders Theatre, seems to us a defect in management which can be corrected...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COMMENCEMENT EXERCISES BACK OF SEVER. | 1/25/1912 | See Source »

...sheep-skin now I value not a whit...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE SPECTRE DEGREE. | 12/10/1880 | See Source »

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